Convicted drug smuggler details sexual harassment behind bars

An Irish woman who spent two years in a Peruvian jail after she was caught smuggling cocaine into the country, has released a book detailing what it was like for her while incarcerated including the sexual harassment she endured.

Michaella McCollum, 26, was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 2013 after she was caught smuggling $2.58 million worth of cocaine.

In her tell-all book You'll never see the light again, the mum-of-two has revealed that many of the women inside the prison were having sex with one another in front of up to 200 people, with no other inmates often batting an eyelid.

Michaella McCollum Connolly, was arrested in Peru in 2013. (AP/AAP)

"When they got down to it, they were so passionate it was like the world was ending," McCollum, one half of the duo who was arrested known as the Peru Two, writes in her book.

"I was transfixed by their intensity. I'd never seen anything like it."

She also spoke about the misconduct she experienced from the male guards while locked-up, revealing a time when she narrowly escaped a guard attempting to force himself upon her after she asked him for a cigarette.

"There was no smoking in my cell, he mimed, but he gestured to the other side, to a bathroom area where it would be possible. He had a lighter, and he would show me where I could smoke," McCollum says, adding that she quickly regretted trusting him once they sat down out of sight and he tried to force himself upon her, pulling her head toward his crotch.

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McCollum also revealed that she was often forced to walk through the male part of the prison, where she was subjected to an onslaught of sexual harassment.